Wichman v. Wichman’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 2010
13 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Connolly v. Connolly · Kaplan v. Kaplan · Hopkins v. Pac · Breen v. Breen · Rau v. Rau
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Unless and to the. extent that the decree precludes modification, any final order for the periodic payment of permanent alimony or support or an order for alimony. . . may at any time thereafter be continued, set aside, altered or modified by said court. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Provisions that preclude modification tend to be disfavored. . .When a provision in a divorce decree that precludes or restricts a later court's power to modify financial orders is clear and unambiguous, however, that provision will be upheld. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the living arrangements cause such a change of circumstances as to alter the financial needs of that party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.